Its clear the story is 100 percent true, Gritty is such a wuss that with a running start and a punch to the back of the head, he can't take out a 13-year-old boy even. In fact, even when hit in the head, he can't leave a mark and somehow it magically went to his back.
@Coin Thanks, I've done these before, not sure why I'm failing at it now heh.
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Minus the details I tried to get in that spoiler, I enjoyed the last trilogy.
I mentioned it back around page 50 in this thread, but its the conclusion I imagined before Lucas started work on the prequel trilogy; we were talking about this same storyline in the 80s when I was young. Its bits and pieces that have been utilized in various parts of the EU. The only big change was Rey's lineage in my eyes and I liked the change for this trilogy, it worked within the context for me. It did make a few big locations, more could have had a story to them but some of the focus has come away from ships and locations.
The coherent criticisms don't hold for me, we accepted Solo's 12 parsec Kessel run with suspension of disbelief, before we (children of the 70s) learned a parsec was a measurement of distance and not time. I don't care to get into minutiae in favor of the story that seems better as the final film brings a few big pieces together.
And the Lando/Finn/Jannah cliff hanger is good, but again, talking about bits of Lando's story from EU would be spoiler territory but it all adds up.
I tried to put my thoughts on the final Star Wars trilogy early in the thread but failed horribly with various spoiler tags. I'll try again here.
I will say right off the bat, the only difference I see now is that the critiques all stem from mature adults who saw the original trilogy as children (or when they were younger). I think a part of the more critical view of the last trilogy is that our suspension of disbelief was far greater for the original trilogy and we're more critical of the recent trilogy in our maturity.
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@Ghost said in Separating Art From Artist:
voted against it being legalized in my state
You SOB, so depressed I'm gonna go to Colorado while listening to my Conor Oberst collection.
And rest in peaces, 1st Dead Celebrities 2020 thread.
@GreenFlashlight said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Lotherio said in Good or New Movies Review:
@GreenFlashlight said in Good or New Movies Review:
but by their own sins and self-judgment?
Like the first 20-30 books in the first run of new mutants? Where it's the demon bear that's after Dani that's stimulating those fears?
I never read the original run. So this looks like a translation of that series?
An interpretation at least. A few things changed but yeah looks close to that story with less comedy comic parts.
@GreenFlashlight said in Good or New Movies Review:
but by their own sins and self-judgment?
Like the first 20-30 books in the first run of new mutants? Where it's the demon bear that's after Dani that's stimulating those fears?
@Auspice That's good, and goes back to pre-cyperpunk era with corp/AI/govs using tech to brainwash/control even. Not saying you intend to go that way, but it bridges a lot of interesting gaps given its time frame and a lot of the work that has followed.
@Auspice said in Arty stuff and Writey stuff:
Option A) Feature-length script based on Bradbury's short story, The Veldt.
Thing 1) this just cause a longer account of what's happening in the room/AI/whatever (kids plotting to kill parents) would be interesting.
Thing 2) a MU-version of this involving various 'plots' or as folks call them these days 'seasons' in different genre's worlds for a few weeks to a few months with the in-between plots time being trying to figure out what's happening with these intelligent VR immersion rooms should be done. I'd vote some odd, deep, supernatural thing where the singularity/universe/deity is opening the way to lost dimensions or otherworld or dreams as folks like to say these days as part of the meta.
@Browncoat said in Firefly - Still Flyin':
He is also the main coder (I've done all the descs and a big chunk of the wiki in the meantime) and my guess is that he hasn't been aware of the SUSPECT flag. This is our first rodeo with FS3.
I believe you said in the advertisement its FS3 on Penn. I'd recommend connecting with the PennMu* folks if you haven't already (web: mush.pennmush.org - the social MUSH via client, same address via port 4201). They can help, such as easier to connect with @grapenut who helped with the web-based JS client that can be a useful tool (and I've had it run just fun on wikidot).
They're also good for discussions about policy too. I can say as related to SUSPECT (a mushcode thing that PennMUSH has as well), they'd say if it wasn't in policy, it shouldn't be used on players.
@faraday said in What is the 'ideal' power range?:
You can start with level 6 (out of 7) in both Piloting and Gunnery if you want, yet you don't see Viper pilot players leaving in droves like: "Wellp; I've maxxed out my skills. There's nothing more to do here." There are other ways to measure achievement -- story arcs, relationships, thrilling heroics, even to a lesser degree medals, victory tallies and promotions.
For what it's worth from a story telling perspective I'd put Wedge Antilles (Corellian frieghter pilot tuned star fighter) and Biggs Darklighter (Imperial trained pilot, friend of Luke's from home, visited after academy graduation in deleted scenes) at the same level or a few points off each other in FS3. Same chances maybe more gunnery in the trained Biggs. Biggs dies at Yavin 4 and Antilles is on ask three original trilogy films, firing the first torpedo in death star two to weaken it for Landos file through). Everyone has the same chances at start and to catch up a little after even only a few action skill raises. In a more complex system getting these two closer to the movie payout sounds nightmarish.
I prefer power variety but with equal chance for story impact. Vet's and rookies alike.
For what it's worth if your not familiar with They Might Be Giants work in children's genres, they perform the Meeska Moosa variant at the opening of the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse as well as the ending song Hot Dog. They also are in Coraline with the other father song. They still do their own music as well and are touring in 2020.
I give up with these spoilers not working
Imagine if every one argues for Greek mythology but single canon, or closer to various inconsistencies, argued canon among Arthurian legend? I think George allowed EU and retconned and whatever else to open this door there isn't one SW, everyone was a different view of what is good or bad about it and ...
That's just fine.
@Sockmonkey said in Good or New Movies Review:
And since we are on the topic, here's my final ranking:
Ugh, this is not complete. Where is Caravan of Courage (this is the Ewok one with the random kid actors .. the marauders lose here before they show up in the Mandalorian, spoiler alert) or The Holiday Special.
@Testament Sorry, I was kidding about not knowing the message just to say I like the Red Green show.
@Testament I don't know what the message was, but can't go wrong with Red Green, upvote on principle.
@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Roz said in Good or New Movies Review:
Haven't seen the latest movie yet, but it's absolutely nuts that there wasn't an outline and narrative arc planned out for the trilogy as a whole.
Like how Darth Vader's arc or even relationship to Luke (or for that matter, Luke's relationship to Leia) was meticulously planned out in the original trilogy?
Lucas, love him or lump him in the fan love/hate relationship that's went on for decades, was good at being meticulous in planning it all out like that, including character necessity/screen time to tell their whole stories in as little time necessary to make the most impact. Like, literally, you can hate the prequel, but the character development is done right in the format similar to the original trilogy. No one is over-portrayed/shown for commercial benefit. Like the hate for Jar Jar, that's on purpose, its enough so the 5 minutes of time he gets near center camera in the last two of the prequels we can hate him more for pushing the naboo agenda from non confidence to supreme control.
@Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:
the hipster disease has infected musical theater and any critics engaging in it
Don't get me wrong, I plan to see Cats and enjoy it, damn the critics. Its what @Auspice is hinting at here, its hipster to be hipster. Cats has been so popular, that the 'real artsy critics' must have to dislike it simply because its popular more so than a real critique, or you know, and be dramatic enough in the review to compete with the other critics in some dramatic rhetorical agreement on dislike for the film version. I dare say being dramatic as a critic just to garner support from ad dollars to justify being a douche is sort of mainstream critic culture.
Just like Endgame, love it or lump it, I'm okay that nerd culture is floating to the top (the one critique mentions Cthulhu), but I'm getting over that too. I want my enjoyment of nerdy things (Star Wars, King Arthur, Flash Gordon, Al Qadim setting unsupported since 2e) to be more me enjoying it and not mainstream but I'm not going to critique any that go too mainstream.
Like you point out @Ganymede , no one should be surprised by what happens in Cats in the film version, as a lot of the criticism was leaning towards. I mean literally, you'd have had to be asleep for the past number of decades to not know what Cats is and what its about.
